{"id":26338,"date":"2018-04-22T01:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=26338"},"modified":"2018-04-22T01:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:13:50","slug":"poet-gives-talk-on-power-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/22\/poet-gives-talk-on-power-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet gives talk on power of poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AALO, Apr 21:<\/strong> Renowned poet Madhu Raghavendra gave a talk on &#8216;Power of poetry&#8217; at St Francis de Sales College here on 19 April.<br \/>\nHe said poetry of a particular region speaks immensely about that culture and politics.<br \/>\n&#8220;Globally, with the spread of performance poetry as an upcoming art form, there is an opportunity to use the art to propagate culture and human rights,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There is evidence to support that introducing arts and poetry in general education and curricula improves students&#8217; imagination and narrative skills, and develops a sense of ethics towards society.&#8221;<br \/>\nMadhu is the founder of Poetry Couture, one of India&#8217;s largest pro-bono poetry initiatives, and his debut book of poems, Make Me Some Love to Eat, has been well received nationwide.<br \/>\nHe performs poetry at many literature festivals in India. He was a resident artist at Basar Confluence, one of Arunachal Pradesh&#8217; first artist residency programmes, informed a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, Apr 21: Renowned poet Madhu Raghavendra gave a talk on &#8216;Power of poetry&#8217; at St Francis de Sales College here on 19 April. He said poetry of a particular region speaks immensely about that culture and politics. &#8220;Globally, with the spread of performance poetry as an upcoming art form, there is an opportunity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}